Inu Kaiba: Can I read 10,000 words with this story idea? …Can I try…? OK for those of you who do not know what Kare Kano or His and Her circumstances it's a pretty good manga! And I'm going to use that idea here… Will it work o.O... Let's find out!
Disclaimer: I almost never put these in but…. Because I'm using two people's ideas… I do not own Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances, or InuYasha. This diclaimer is for the whole fic! Read on!
Summary: AU Higurashi Kagome is the smartest and most beautiful girl at Tama High. Or she was… That is until Taishou InuYasha showed up, and beat her high score. Now she's competing for the top spot again. Just one problem. She wasn't as immune to his charms as they all thought.
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Act One: Far From Perfect
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"Higurashi Kagome has it all! Looks, brains and all the guys following her! She's so perfect. I wish I could like her…"
I took a fleeting glace at them as they walked past me down the hall, chattering with their school girl giggles. I was glad they hadn't recognized me, it was embarrassing enough to hear that.
I hate all that crap they insist on gossiping about… "Oh Higurashi is this, Higurashi is that." I worked very hard to get where I am and keep it up. And I'm not perfect.
I attained this position for the praise. And thought I like to be told that I'm so perfect, and I like that all the students bring me all their homework that they need help with….
Perfect is an understatement to me, I'm anything but perfect. My parents know this.
The girl with the perfect hair style, always perfectly ironed with no wrinkles on her skirt and shirt, the smartest person in school, the one all the guys follow… That's me. But only at school.
At home I take my contacts off and put my glasses on. I put on a sweat suit, the casual clothes that sorta thing. I tie my hair up in pigtails, and I relax.
For some reason, I like all the attention. And to all those who think I never kick back and relax I do. …When I have time. But I always have music on when I'm studying. Lately I take to watching Card Captor Sakura when I have some free time, I make at least 30 minutes every night to watch an episode and I constantly listen to the theme song. In fact I was singing it to myself that day. "Catch you, catch you, catch me, catch me, matte! Kotchi wo muite suki da to itte. Sou Nice to Meet You Good to see you kitto!"
"Higurashi-San, what are you singing?"
I froze in my tracks. And slowly turned around to face Taishou InuYasha, the bane of my existence. He was way too smart. And way too cute.
"Oh," I said putting a hand behind my head and scratching it with the innocent "You caught me" look. "I was singing Beethoven…"
"But I thought there weren't any words in Beethoven, it was just instrumental... Isn't it?" Then he looked at me as if I were on crack.
"I AM NOT ON CRACK, I mean… I like to add words to the classical music, it gives it more meaning. You know, like…"
"They say you're the smartest girl in school. You don't seem so special if you go around singing Catch You Catch Me in the halls. And screaming I'm not on crack at me? How intelligent is that?"
"WELL, YOU CERTAINLY LOOKED AT ME AS IF I WAS."
"Well, you probably are. Or you cheat. How else could you get such great marks when you're a complete and total idiot? And also, don't lie to me. My little sister watches Card Captor Sakura. How can 'Catch You Catch Me' be Mozart? You're nothing but a nerdy wannabe that likes shojo."
"…So what if I am. It's not like anyone will think any..." It was then that I reached out and grabbed him by the collar, shaking him around a bit. "I SWEAR IF YOU TELL ANYONE ABOUT THIS…."
"Higurashi, why would I tell the world that you like Card Captor Sakura? It's not like I feel the need." Then he reached out and removed my hands, finger by finger, from his collar.
"Now get lost, you wannabe. You'll never be as smart as you think you can be."
"Shut up." I said under my breath.
It was then that the door to one of the many classrooms on the hall opened. "Is something wrong?" Ms. Naoko asked. "Higurashi! You're not the type to be late for class! You better hurry up."
It was then that I got a look at the clock. "Oh my gosh, you're right Ms. Naoko. See you later." And I sped out of there. "Kagome no baka, you didn't even notice the clock."
As I passed by InuYasha, running like the wind, he muttered just loud enough to hear. "Baka is right."
From that day on, I swore to exact revenge on Taishou InuYasha. My burning rage at him developed and became even worse as time went on. I had never known, I'd hate him even more pretty soon.
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When I finally arrived at class, panting and gasping while leaning on the door to catch my breath, Mrs. Aruma spoke, "You're tardy Ms. Higurashi. I should punish you but because you're record is clean I'll let it go."
Some of the kids were staring. I was ten minutes late for class, and Mrs. Aruma was the meanest teacher this side of hell. No one could step into her class ten minutes late without any sort or repercussions and bad ones at that. But here I was standing there, unscathed and with as clean a record as always. No punishment. Needless to say, I was shocked.
As I strode down the aisles to my seat, I walked past the gossiping students. Everyone who normally seemed to love me, was giving me ugly glares. Could this day get any worse?
As soon as I said that, it jinxed us all. The sky which had been perfectly clear became shrouded with ominous black clouds and a downpour began. As I looked out the window near my seat, I noticed people holding newspapers or briefcases over their heads and running for their lives to bus shelters. It was one bad storm alright.
Worst part? "I didn't bring an umbrella!" I groaned and smacked my head down on the desk.
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Class seemed to last forever no matter how smart and how good I was. Almost everyone gave me the evil eye at one point of class or another, and I noticed a hell of a lot more note passing then normal. I could bet almost all of them were asking each other. "How is Higurashi so special that she can get away with no punishment from Aruma the evil witch?" Or I had a vague idea of what they said. I could just tell when two students shared a glance they were planning to give me the evil eye.
It continued that way for the rest of class. I think I dozed off once… But because I'm constantly chewing on my pen… Once my head slammed down on the desk, the pen made a sharp sound and stung my mouth, and I pulled my head up like a lightning bolt.
My first reaction was "Oh my god, did anyone see me?"
But looking around I realized no one had seen me.
The worst part was once class ended….
I realized I had no clue what the whole class had actually been about.
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The best part was this year was almost over and I'd be entering Grade 10 next year.
I could hardly wait, I hoped it was a lot more challenging then Grade 9 which had seemed much to easy lately, which is why I had ended up watching Card Captor Sakura at least fifty times.
When the school bell finally rang, I ran out of there as fast as I could.
I may be the model student, but hell, everyone loves the end of the day, especially the end of the day on Friday. Everyone was exiting the building, and it certainly looked like a stampede. But then again who isn't eager to get home on Friday?
That and if I hurried I could catch the latest episode of Chobits.
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So that was me.
The one sitting over there with her hair in pigtails, glasses on, and horrible looking casual closes on.
I'm an anime whore, I admit it. It's something to do when your not studying/reading/watching movies with your brother. As I was watching the end of Chobits, Souta barged right in front of the T.V. "Sis, I need your help."
I sighed and pressed the off button on the remote control. "What now? You're incredibly easy Grade 2 math?"
"I'm in GRADE SEVEN, and I'm doing FRACTIONS. Which are HARD. In case you haven't noticed."
I looked over the sheet. "OK Now in adding and subtracting fractions, the denominators must both be the same. So if you're adding three over four plus one over three, you would do four times three, and three times four. But you also multiply the numerator so you would also multiply one three times three and one times four. Which leaves you with the two fractions of nine over twelve plus four over twelve. And the answer is…"
Souta grinned and rose his hand in the air. "I know, I know!"
I smiled and handed the sheet to him. "And the answer is?"
Souta grinned and pulled his hands to fists and pulled them to his chest twisting and turning around, like anime characters do when excited. "It's thirteen over twelve."
"But, that's an improper fraction, and the real answer is…?"
Souta sighed. "One and one over twelve."
I cheered for him and ruffled the hair on his head. "Way to go Souta!"
"I did it?"
"You sure did!"
Souta leapt up and started running around the house like a hyper kid that consumed too much candy. "I DID IT, I DID IT, I DID IT!"
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After that I spent the rest the night doing homework and studying my text for god knows what pop quiz that they might spring on us. When I finally retired to bed sometime after midnight, I remembered that Souta and my sister Hikari were going to the movies tomorrow, and mum and dad were going out. I'd wanted to go, but someone needed to stay behind and watch the house.
I was really upset about that then, and used this time to curse my parents in my head. When I found the last wisps of thoughts breaking away, I mentally cursed that I wouldn't be able to insult them for this anymore, it would be in the past by then. And the past brought up thought of my history course.
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The next thing I knew it was 10 A.M. and I was wide awake screaming. I'd been lost in Feudal Japan in the middle of a battle field, and InuYasha, or at least it looked like him, was trying to save me from all the evil demons. But he just couldn't handle them, and he fell to the ground in a dead faint. I was screaming for someone to help as the demons closed in as the demons slithered over top of InuYasha and I. This one snake demon had its poisonous fangs just touching my forehead, ready to sink them into my forehead and suck my brains out, like what had already happened to poor InuYasha… I woke up.
I thanked my stars I had woken up when I had, or else I would probably need therapy with nightmares like that.
I wandered downstairs in my usual sweat suit to find Souta and Hikari heading out. I sat on the couch watching anime for a half hour or so, when I realized it was raining…
And they forgot their umbrella. That's when the doorbell rang. Judging from holding all the pieces of the puzzle, or so I thought… I figured Souta and Hikari had come back for the umbrella. So I grabbed it and threw open the door and smacked whoever was at the door with the umbrella. And that's when I realized the person at the door was a bit too tall to be my brother Souta or Hikari.
My luck was shit, it had to be. The person standing at the door was Taishou InuYasha. And I had just smacked him with an umbrella, on the chest since I had aimed for where Souta's head would have been. I'm such an idiot, I'm THE Kagome no Baka.
I'm so far from perfect it's not even funny.
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Inu Kaiba: Yay, I got more than 2,000 words on the first chapter! I'm so happy! Please read and review, I appreciate it!